About What Was Lost: 20 Writers on Miscarriage, Healing and Hope. Jessica Berger Gross, editor, $24.50

Revealing a wide spectrum of perspectives, this powerful collection offers comfort and community for the millions of women (and their loved ones) who experience this all-too-common kind of loss.

Beyond Tears: Living After Losing a Child, Revised. Ellen Mitchell, editor, $15.50

The death of a child is that unimaginable loss no parent ever expects to face. In Beyond Tears, nine mothers share their individual stories of how to survive in the darkest hour. They candidly share with other bereaved parents what to expect in the first year and long beyond. This sharing in itself is a catharsis and because each of these mothers lost her child at least seven years ago, she is in a unique position to provide perspective on what newly bereaved parents can expect to feel. The mothers of Beyond Tears offer reassurance that the clouds of grief do lessen with time and that grieving parents will find a way to live, and even laugh again.

Capturing a Short Life. Directed, produced & written by Sheona McDonald. $50.00 DVD format, 54 minutes

Capturing a Short Life is a beautiful and intimate documentary about families dealing with the loss of a child in the first months of life. This is a film about acknowledging, celebrating and honoring those powerful, impossibly few moments.

Comfort: a Journey Through Grief. Ann Hood, $22.00

A moving and remarkable memoir about the sudden death of a daughter, surviving grief and learning to love again.

Couple Communication after a Baby Dies: Differing Perspectives. Sherokee Ilse & Tim Nelson, $15.95

Couple Communication presents practical perspectives on the differences and similarities of men and women who grieve. This book includes the stories of two couples who have endured the ups, downs, and togetherness since their babies died.

A Gift of Time: Continuing Your Pregnancy When Your Baby's Life is Expected to Be Brief. Amy Kuebelbeck & Deborah Davis, $20.50

A GIFT OF TIME is a gentle and practical guide for parents who decide to continue their pregnancy knowing that their baby's life will be brief. 

When prenatal testing reveals that an unborn child is expected to die before or shortly after birth, some parents will choose to proceed with the pregnancy and to welcome their child into the world. With compassion and support, A GIFT OF TIME walks them step-by-step through this challenging and emotional experience — from the infant's life-limiting prenatal diagnosis and the decision to have the baby to coping with the pregnancy and making plans for the baby's birth and death. 

A GIFT OF TIME also offers inspiration and reassurance through the memories of numerous parents who have loved a child who did not survive. Their moving experiences are stories of grief — and of hope. Their anguish over the prenatal diagnosis turns to joy and love during the birth of their child and to gratitude and peace when reflecting on their baby's short life.

Full of practical suggestions for parents and for caregivers, A GIFT OF TIME also features the innovative concept of perinatal hospice and palliative care. Caring and thoughtful, the book helps parents embrace the extraordinary time they will have with their child.

How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy and Parenthood Loss. Edited by Jessica Hiemstra & Lisa Martin-Demoor, $19.95

One size fits all does not apply to pregnancy and childbirth. Each one is different, unique, and comes with its share of pleasure and pain. But how does one prepare for an unexpected loss of a pregnancy or hoped-for baby? In How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting, writers share their true stories of miscarriage, stillbirth, infertility, and other, related losses. This literary anthology picks up where some pregnancy books end and offers diverse, honest, and moving essays that can prepare and guide women and their families for when the unforeseen happens.

Jesse: a Mother’s Story. Marianne Leone, $17.00

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry. He also had severe cerebral palsy and was quadriplegic, unable to speak, and wracked by seizures. He died suddenly at age seventeen.

In fiercely honest, surprisingly funny, and sometimes heartbreaking prose, Jesse's mother, Marianne Leone, chronicles her transformation by the remarkable life and untimely death of her child. An unforgettable memoir of joy, grief, and triumph, Jesse: a Mother’s Story unlocks the secret of unconditional love and speaks to all families who strive to do right by their children.

Josie’s Story: a Mother’s Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical Care Safe. Sorrel King, $32.50

The account of one woman’s unlikely path from full-time mom to nationally renowned patient advocate, Josie’s Story is the inspirational chronicle of how a mother—and her unforgettable daughter—are transforming the face of American medicine.

When Sorrel King’s eighteen-month-old daughter Josie was badly burned by a faulty water heater in the family’s new home, she was taken to the world-renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she made a remarkable recovery. But as she was preparing to leave, the hospital’s system of communication broke down and Josie was given a fatal shot of methadone, sending her into cardiac arrest. Within forty-eight hours, the King family went from planning a homecoming to planning a funeral. Dizzy with grief and close to ending her marriage, Sorrel slowly pulled herself and her life back together. Accepting Hopkins’ settlement, she and her husband established the Josie King Foundation. They began to implement basic programs in hospitals emphasizing communication between patients, family, and medical staff—practices which can now be found in hospitals around the country.

Losing Frankie. Linda Chen, $18.95

In 2006 the life of an 18-year-old Toronto high school senior ended abruptly on a rugby field five minutes into the game.  Frankie’s life provided his parent’s with their greatest joy. Recounting his short life in this touching memoir is both a celebration and a healing for his family and for others who have known the abrupt and unexpected loss of a loved one.

No Child Should Grieve Alone. Emilio Parga, $17.95

A guide for parents, caregivers and professionals.

Nurturing Healing Love: a Mother’s Journey of Hope & Forgiveness. Scarlett Lewis, with Natasha Stoynoff, $19.95

On December 14, 2012, Scarlett Lewis experienced something that no parent should ever have to endure: she lost her son Jesse in an act of unimaginable violence. The day started just like any other, but when a gunman opened fire at Sandy Hook Elementary School, Scarlett's life changed forever.

Following Jesse's death, Scarlett went on an unexpected journey, inspired by a simple three-word message he had scrawled on their kitchen chalkboard shortly before he died: Norurting Helin Love (Nurturing Healing Love). It was as if he knew just what his family would need in order to go on after this horrible tragedy. Bolstered by his words, Scarlett took her first step toward a new life. And with each step, it became clearer how true Jesse's message was. She learned that love was indeed the essential element necessary to move forward and that taking the path of love is a choice. NURTURING HEALING LOVE is Scarlett's story of how choosing love is changing her life — and how it could change our world.

Parenting After the Death of a Child: a Practitioner's Guide. Jennifer Buckle & Stephen Fleming, $63.95

The death of a child has a tremendous and overwhelming impact on parents and siblings, completely altering the psychological landscape of the family. In the aftermath of such a tragedy, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that of their surviving children. How can someone attempt to cease parenting a deceased child while maintaining this role with his/her other children? Is it possible for a mother or father to effectively deal with feelings of grief and loss while simultaneously helping their surviving children?

Parenting After the Death of a Child addresses this complex and daunting dilemma. Following on the heels of a qualitative research study that involved interviewing bereaved parents, both fathers and mothers, Buckle and Fleming have put together several different stories of loss and recovery to create an invaluable resource for clinicians, students, and grieving parents. The authors present the experience of losing a child and its subsequent impact on a family in a novel and effective way, demonstrating the strength and importance of their book for the counseling field.

Silent Birth: When Your Baby Dies. Sharon Covington, $4.95

Based on the experiences of parents who have lost an infant during pregnancy, at — or shortly after — birth, Silent Birth will help you know what to expect and what to do when suddenly faced with the trauma of your baby’s death. Though nothing will take away the pain, this booklet is designed to help you find a meaningful way to commemorate your baby’s life and manage your grief.

This brief, compassionate guide is written for parents but will be of value to professionals, family and friends as well.

When a Child Dies From Drugs. Patricia Wittberger & Russ Wittberger, $14.95

Compassionate advice and practical help for parents, siblings, family and friends in bereavement after losing someone to substance abuse.

When Your Child Dies: Tools for Mending Parents’ Broken Hearts. Avril Nagel & Randie Clark, $16.95

The death of your child is devastating. No parent feels that he or she should outlive his or her child. WHEN YOUR CHILD DIES provides grief-stricken parents with the tools to navigate the grieving process and addresses possible challenges including the intrusion of the media, the justice system, medical system and coroners. 

Grieving parents will learn how to reduce anxiety and depression and promote healthy self-soothing, identify and address issues that linger and cause emotional pain following the child’s death and incorporate their loss into their lives in healthy ways. There are suggestions for talking with surviving children about death and grief, how to handle the impact on extended family systems and social relationships, how to foster a continued loving relationship in their lives with the dead child's memory, among other practical advice, as well as providing a comprehensive list of resources and reading for ongoing support.

WHEN YOUR CHILD DIES is a comprehensive handbook for grief-stricken parents, grief counseling organizations, resource centers and library grief collections.